Jim’s Reviews > Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters > Status Update

At 26 we are almost 30 actually, and I woke with a powerful knock of awareness at my heart, my eyes flew open, I saw time flying like an enormous bird. We are getting to our age of most power, our peak. I feel older and clearer than I ever did—though at the same time more irretrievable isolated in the huge dream of the world.

I want to write about the crazy generation and put them on the map and give them importance and make everything begin to change once more, as it always does every twenty years.

The abyss is more real than present flesh or future fancy.